"Li Si, you remember for me, you must always tell the king, you must not do any reckless acts, otherwise everyone will end up like me, how can he become the real King of Qin?"

"Yes, Lees remembers."

"Okay, you go back, don't worry, it's not necessarily a bad thing for me to stay away from Xianyang this time."

With a wave of Li Ling's hand, a team of more than 30,000 people left Xianyang and headed west.

And all of this originated from the early dynasty after Meng Fu returned to Xianyang five days ago.

After quelling the Jinyang rebellion, Meng Wu was transferred to Jinyang, Meng Wei sat in Xianyang, Wang Su disarmed and returned to the field, and the manpower in the army was obviously insufficient.

But at such a time, Lü Buwei would definitely try his best to place his own manpower, how could he let Li Ling command the army?

So, the first battle between Yingzheng and Lü Buwei began.

I thought that I was fully prepared to contact many officials and win, but who would have thought that I would really go to the court, with Lü Buwei's statement, more than half of the people who had contacted and supported Li Ling in charge of the army instantly fell to Lü Buwei, and the rest of the people were insignificant, and there was no way to change the result.

After this contest, instead of achieving his goal, Ying Zheng made public the fact that he was unwilling to be at the mercy of Lü Buwei, which aroused Lü Buwei's vigilance, and even the cronies he cultivated were exposed.

How could the scheming Lü Buwei just defend?

Lü Buwei directly proposed that there were often rebellions in the north and were often harassed by the Huns, and Li Ling had the talent to govern the country and the ability to lead the army, so it was better to go directly to the north to be a county guard and lead all military and political affairs in the north.

Perfect killing three birds with one stone, Zhao Yi, who was originally stationed in the north, returned to Xianyang from the north, this time directly wooing the Ying clan, and at the same time transferred Li Ling to the north, taking charge of all affairs, so that there was a gap between the Ying clan and Li Ling, and finally Li Ling, a possible big threat, the only factor that would affect his control of Yingzheng was directly and completely away from Xianyang.

It seems that more than 30,000 people seem to be very powerful, as if Li Ling has not suffered a loss, but in fact, this is not the case at all.

Among the more than 30,000 people, only the 300 cavalry given to Li Ling by Wang Qian, the 100 cavalry of Baili Meng, the 400 cavalry recruited by himself, and the last less than 5,000 of the 10,000 foot soldiers who went out before!

The actual combat effectiveness is pitiful, and the rest are the families of these soldiers and some craftsmen brought in by Li Ling.

And what awaits Li Ling after arriving in the Northland?

The main force of the 10,000 Qin army controlled by Zhao Yi's cronies!

There were only 10,000 main forces of the Qin army, and the rest of the miscellaneous soldiers were brought back to Xianyang by Zhao Yi at the behest of Lü Buwei.

What he did this time was definitely a big thunder for Li Ling.

The cronies were taken away by Li Ling, and Zhao Yi must be dissatisfied with Li Ling, and these cronies obviously will not obey Li Ling's orders, and Li Ling will inevitably have difficulties after arriving in the north.

In the end, due to the fact that the entire northern land is such a large territory, the combat power that can be used is only more than 10,000 people, it is conceivable how difficult the security of the northern land will be, and in case the Xiongnu invade the territory again, Li Ling will not be able to fight against it at all with this point.

At that time, whether it was to deal with Li Ling or let his forces interfere in the Northland, it would be a breeze!

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"Huan Qi greets Lord County Guard."

After a long journey of more than 20 days, he finally arrived in Zhiyiqu County, Beidi County, Li Ling also had a certain understanding of Beidi along the way, but he still didn't expect it to be the scene in front of him, let alone that Huan Qi would be so obviously against himself.

After the brigade entered the territory of Yiqu County, Huan Qi did not bring people to greet him, but chose to stay in the city and wait.

When Li Ling entered the city, he found that there were only a few dozen guards in the city, and Yiqu County Cheng had also died.

"So, you're going to tell me that now even the county seat is only a few dozen people, and the county can be killed casually?"

"The lowly is incompetent, there are only 10,000 horses in the hands of the lowly position, but now he has to be responsible for the defense of the entire northland, and at the same time he has to deal with the construction of the Great Wall.

"Alright, I got it."

10,000 defenders is indeed a little small for the huge Northland, but Li Ling doesn't believe that the Northland has really reached a miserable point where even the county seat is only guarded by a few dozen people, as for any small rebellion can kill the county Cheng, or Yiqu County, this is a bit too nonsense.

"Huan Qi, do you know where there is a horse market around here?"

"Qiyu County Guard, there is a horse market in the west of the city, but it is not peaceful there, if the county guard wants to go, I will transfer people to protect the county guard now."

"Master, there are a few people who are sneakily hiding outside, and I have killed them, and this is from those people."

Just as Li Ling had just sat down to learn about the situation in the Northland, Baili Meng rushed in directly, holding ten well-made bronze long swords in his hands, followed by a group of people who carried ten corpses in, each of whom was killed by an arrow in the throat.

Seeing Baili Meng come in, Huan Qi's eyelids suddenly jumped, these ten people were all his henchmen.

The death of the county Cheng is actually related to Huan Qi, not only Yiqu County, but also the county Cheng in two other places were also killed by Huan Qi deliberately releasing water, and the ten people he arranged were not actually aimed at Li Ling.

He had already inquired about Li Ling and learned that Li Ling was very smart, so he was also afraid that he would be held accountable, and even afraid that Li Ling would cut himself in order to establish his prestige after he came here, so he arranged for these ten people to protect himself.

But how could he have thought that the ten most powerful people under his command, or the ten people arranged in the shadows, all died without a sound, and all of them were shot in the throat?

"Do you know any of these people?"

After discovering Huan Qi's abnormality, Li Ling knew that these people must have something to do with him, so Li Ling asked directly.

"This is my man!"

"Oh? Your people? ”

I didn't expect Huan Qi to admit it like this, which was really unexpected.

"Yes, due to the limited manpower of the lowly office, the failure to do a good job of law and order, resulting in a total of three county officials dying in various rebellions, the lowly officials were afraid that the county guard would blame them, so they arranged for these ten people, if the county guard wanted to kill me, they would come out to rescue me and leave. I just didn't expect ......"

"Oh, so you're rebellious?"

"I didn't! He has always followed General Zhao Yi and is loyal, how can he have a rebellious heart? ”

"Your own unfavorable law and order caused three county officials to die in a rebellion, and now that I am here, you actually arrange ten people to keep an eye on you, if I punish you according to the law, you will use these ten ambushed swords and axes, this is not a rebellion? Do you still have to quibble? Come! Grab me! ”

"Wronged! I didn't! I don't! ”

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